Dust-guard.



G.' P. GODLEY. DUST GUARD. APPLICATION FILED SPT. 13.` 1905.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

GEORGE E. GODLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DUST-GUARD.

To all wil/0m, 7115 may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. GODLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Phila delphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and usefulDust-Guard, of which the following is a specification.

The invention is applicable to the boxes of railway-cars, and has forits object, among others, to provide a novel construction which can beinexpensively manufactured; to further provide a light, simple, durable,and reliable dust-guard that can be applied to existing types of boxesWithout necessitating any change of structure therein; to provide adust-guard having a rigid member and a flexible or pliable member soarranged in respect to each other that there is resent an annular rim orcollar up on the flexilile member adapted to hug the axle 5 to furtherprovide a dustguard having a pliable member adapted to iit and presssnugly against theinner wall of the axle-box to prevent dust and dirtfrom finding its way to bearing.

The invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described andfinally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will bemore fully understood from the following description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and inwhich'- Figure l is a perspective view of a dustguard of the invention;Fig. 2, an elevational view showing detail construction; and Fig. 3 is aview, principally in section, illustrating application of the dust-guardto a journal and its complemental box.

Referring to the drawings, a is a one-piece rigid member, which may beof wood, and b is a one-piece pliable member, preferably of felt, whichcovers the entire outer face of the rigid member and is uncorrugated anduncreased. The two members may be rectangular in configuration and maybe secured together in any suitable manner. In the present instance usehas been made of staples c for this purpose. A ring c is embeddedslightly in the pliable member and is held in place by the staples c.

provide upon the pliable member b an annular rim or collar d, thepurpose of which will hereinafter appear.

The respective members are constructed in such marmer that theaxle-opening 3 of the rigid member is approximately of the same YSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September '13, 1905.

This serves to Patented Dec. 1906.

Serial No. 278,212.

dimension as the axle f, while the axle-opening g of the pliable memberis considerably smaller than the axle and opening in the rigid memberand extended to Vhug the axle, so much so that the rim or collar d hugsthe axle f very snugly and serves to prevent dust and dirt from findingits way to the ournal. The said pliable member, which is comparativelythick and of a yielding nature, also fits close up to the inner wall ofthe axle-box and serves to prevent dust and dirt from attacking thebearing. The rim or collar d wipes up, as it were, lubricant that wouldotherwise find its way from the box, and the contracted portion of thepliable member caused by the ring-and-staple connection serves toprevent said lubricant from spreading beyond said point of contraction.The rigid member may be provided with an annular recess for thereception of a substantially continuous metallic ring h, which acts toprevent undue wear upon the wooden member.

Having thus described the nature and objects of the invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A dust-guard comprising a one-piece rigid member having anaxle-opening, a onepiece comparatively thick felt member also having anaxle-opening and covering the entire outer face of the rigid member,said felt member being uncorrugated and uncreased and extending at itsopening so as to closely hug the axle, a continuous metal ringsurrounding the opening in the felt 'and means engaging the ring forsecuring the felt to the rigid member, substantially as described.

2. A dust-guard comprising a onepiece rigid member having anaxle-opening approximately thc same size as the axle diameter, aone-piece comparatively thick felt member having cut therein anaxle-opening that is atrue circle and is considerably smaller than theaxle diameter and covering the entire outer face of the rigid member,said felt member being uncorrugated and uncreased and extending at itsopening to form a rim or collar that closely hugs the axle and meanssurrounding the last-mentioned opening to form said rim or collar.

3. A dust-guard comprising a pair of members of which one is rigid andthe other pliable material, said .members being provided withaxle-openings, whereof the opening in the rigid member is grooved andfitted with a metallic wear-ring, annular means encircling theaxle-opening of the pliable member, and

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meansv for embedding the same into the plipliable member to form a rimor collar, subable member to forml arim or collar. stantiallyasdescribed. 1o 4. A dust-guard comprising a pair of mem- In testimonywhereof I have hereunto set bers of which one is rigid and the other ofmy hand and seal.

pliable material said members being provided GEORGE F. GODLEY. [L. s.]

with axle-openings, annular means enoiri Witnesses:

cling the axle-opening of the pliable member I W. J. JACKSON,

and means for embedding the same intofthe l GRANT C. OsBORNE.

